Children play on wooden pallets in Manila Bay on Thursday. The Philippine economy grew by 6.8 percent from a year earlier in the three months to March, in line with most expectations though there are rising concerns over inflation, the government said on May 10.
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President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed a new chairman of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) two months since firing its top officials over alleged excessive foreign trips.
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A Korean Airlines plane flies over a slum area in Paranaque City on Thursday. Thousands of slum dwellers live in the vicinity of the airport complex in Metro Manila, where flights from different countries constantly come and go.
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LONDON - Beggars need to be cleared by police from the streets of Windsor before the wedding of Prince Harry to girlfriend Meghan Markle because their “detritus” is presenting the picturesque English town in a poor light, the local council leader has said.
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LONDON - Outside London's Piccadilly theatre where tickets cost up to 110 pounds and a banner advertising the musical "Annie" reads "It's a hard knock life", Bryan and Kevin sleep in small tents on the street.
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MANILA - Sacked Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor (PCUP) Chairman Terry Ridon rejected Wednesday claims of corruption but said he respects President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to fire him and other commissioners of the agency.
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Members of an urban poor group dramatize their plight during the annual Panunuluyan, as they retell the story of the Nativity at the Christ the King Mission Seminary in Quezon City on Tuesday.
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MANILA - Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor (PCUP) Chairman Terry Ridon said on Tuesday the agency "implemented with full integrity" the president's campaign promise, after President Rodrigo Duterte fired him and the body's commissioners.
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Members of the Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) along with other groups stage the Urban March or ‘Martsa ng Maralita’ condemning the allegedly "looming dictatorship" in the Philippines, which Palace officials have denied.
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